Esquire1 day agoThe Crypto Lobby Dumped $10 Million Into The Race Against Katie Porter, One Of Their Main Criticsverified_publisherEsquire - Charles P. PierceYou better believe we'll be keeping our eyes on Fairshake PAC. (Permanent Musical Accompaniment To The Last Post Of The Week From The Blog's Favourite Living Canadian) The New Yorker has a fascinating piece about how the Look, We Invented New Money crew buried Rep. Katie Porter's primary campaign …
Esquire2 days agoTrump Complained to the People of Detroit About the Word “Groceries” (and Also Circles)verified_publisherEsquire - Charles P. PierceDid anyone follow any of this? On Thursday, in Detroit, the Republican candidate for president of the United States got up before the Detroit Economic Club and said several things that were self-evidently insane, and that was before he told the Detroit Economic Club what a hellhole Detroit is. …
Esquire3 days agoThe Harris-Trump Election Vibes Are Shifting in the Last Weeks of the Campaignsverified_publisherEsquire - Charles P. PierceThere just seems to be something flat about the Democratic campaign as we grind on through the last few weeks. I swear to God that this is not about polls, although that Quinnipiac poll on Wednesday shook me up a little. And I understand that it’s hard to determine anything real with all the smoke …
Esquire3 days ago'Sexual Matador' Stephen Miller Went On Fox To Share His (Alarming) Tips For Picking Up Chicksverified_publisherEsquire - Charles P. PierceAnd that wasn't even the most disgusting part. In You Gotta Play Hurt, his roman à clef about his career at Sports Illustrated, the late, great Dan Jenkins had his hero, Jim Tom Pinch, discussing Austrians with one of his researchers while covering a ski race in Austria. Researcher: This generation's …
Esquire3 days agoA Black Man Was Found Hanging In Alabama, And Hurricane Milton Blew The Roof Off Tropicana Fieldverified_publisherEsquire - Charles P. PierceAnother week in the United States of America, folks. (Permanent Musical Accompaniment To This Post) Being our semi-regular weekly survey of what's goin' down in the several states where, as we know, the real work of governmentin' gets done, and where the sun's not yellow, it's chicken. We begin in …
Esquire5 days agoThere Is No Question That Hurricane Milton Will Obliterate Florida’s West Coastverified_publisherEsquire - Charles P. PierceMeanwhile, virtually the entire Republican party has committed itself to lying about the government’s response to the last hurricane. When I went to bed on Tuesday night, there were some tiny shards of optimism that Hurricane Milton might downgrade a bit before making landfall on Wednesday. I woke …
